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Welcome to GuitarPlayerSource.com. Here, we are frequently asked about which programs are the best for learning to play, and eventually master the guitar. From many years of experience in the field, and learning the hard way, we have brought together a list of the best programs out there. Our hope is that this saves you struggle, wasted money, and wasted time. As teachers, we understand that logically, the best way to learn an instrument, is with a private instructor, but learning an instrument can definitely be done by other means. We have heard many good testimonials from online resources such as the ones below, and for that reason, we felt that compiling a list of the best of the best guitar home training courses was in order.
Below is a quick overview of the programs that we found to be the best, most comprehensive, and overvalued. We hope you use this list to help you start mastering guitar, in ways that you never thought possible. Thank you for visiting our site, and good luck!
 Rating: Five Stars  *This is our top choice.*
Learn & Master
Guitar is the best guitar training program that we believe to exist on the internet.
In all honesty, if you are truely serious about learning guitar, and cannot afford to pay a private instructor $100 USD an hour, this is your best option. This course includes (10) DVDs,
(5) CDs (that you can play along with), and lesson book that leaves out none of the details. It's techniques taught range from beginner to advanced, and we are confident that this will help you learn how to play many different genres of music.
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Review
Rating: Three & Half Stars 
There are a lot of
new "e-courses" coming out that attempt to allow you to
take
guitar lessons from your computer. The majority of
"e-courses" we tested were pretty much worthless, but Jamorama
was a notable exception. The instruction was at least
decent, and the price is low. It still requires that you
practice your guitar in front of a computer every day, however,
which our testers found to be awkward and cumbersome.
However, if Learn & Master Guitar is out of your price range,
and you don't mind practicing along with a computer, Jamorama
may be worth looking at.
Read our Complete Review
 Rating: Two & Half Stars
Guitar Tutor Pro is
another downloadable "e-course." We did not like it as
much as Jamorama, particularly because it didn't include any
video clips, which we considered a major downside. It's
very inexpensive, however, so it may be worth looking at if
you're on an extremely limited budget.
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Rating: Two Stars 
As teachers, we did
not like this product at all, but several of our student testers
did, so it only seemed fair to mention it. It's not really
a guitar training course, per se, as it does not teach the
fundamentals of playing guitar at all. Instead it simply
shows you precisely how to play fifty songs from their list in a
straight forward, paint-by-numbers kind of approach.
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Rating: One Star 
*Not Recommended*
How to Play Guitar
by Roger Evans is the typical learn to play guitar book.
Obviously, it does not have the advantage of using audio and
video examples, but if you want to have a book to physically look at, this one is decent. It has good lessons, but we don't recommend spending money on this if you get one of the services above. Stay away from this book if you are serious about learning the guitar!
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